On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

Archaeologists have found the remains of a Roman fortress in northern Sinai. The discovery illuminates the Roman Empire’s ...

Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Dacia extended for more than a thousand kilometres along the western, northern and eastern borders of the Roman province ... the Roman Empire’s ambition to dominate the ...

I spent hundreds of hours on “Civilization” and its sequels, but I haven’t played many others in the genre beyond Amplitude ...

The Age of Decadencefocuses on choices and consequences, letting players shape their journey through a crumbling world ...

Although the choice of the name "Leo" may have taken the world by surprise as the American ... and devastated large parts of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Balkans. Outside of church history ...

The migration of the workshop of the Naumburg Master, from northeastern France through the Middle Rhine areas to the eastern boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire and further to ... The Saale-Unstrut ...

A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics ... 10:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. Eastern), and the second around ...

Placed in charge of the eastern provinces ... of creating a great empire in the east was destroyed by Octavian’s decisive victory at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. A Roman coin commemorated ...

The short answer to this is because we live in a postcolonial world. For centuries we lived in a political ... the “Third Rome” (successor to both the Western and then Eastern Roman Empire) and a ...